Fortune Thrice Missed
BETTER TIMES COMING. Three times in his life William George Marshford has been on tho point of making his fortune, but as often it has eluded his grasp. “Industry in Adversity” could very well bo his epitaph. In hard circumstances ho has tried to wrest a living, and at last he seems to be on tho way to some prosperity. Trees have always appealed to him, and after ten years on a “bald-head-ed” prairie in Canada ho was unable to bear the sight of treo branches being burned in and around 'his home at Plymouth.
“J. begged these scraps from them,” Mr. Marshford says. “They didn’t understand that wood is beautiful to, me. From selling painted mottoes on sideways-cut branches to making furniture, I built up a now livelihood from trees. I am starting the first logging and sawmill camp in England. It is at Old Stoke Church, Revelstoko, where great trees that sheltered tho graves of my ancestors have fallen.” Before his present more settled existence, Mr. Marshford emigrated to Canada with £BOO capital, lost it, lived four years with Sarsce Indians, planted 6000 sapling trees with Government aid, and cared for them for 10 years—and an afternoon’s hailstorm destroyed the lot. He, his wife and sons lived on grass and on nature by fishing and shooting. lie arrived in England without footwear.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 59, Issue 220, 20 September 1934, Page 4
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